GGGR 2025

Global Gender Gap Report 202526Performance by region 1.6 In line with its prior editions, the Global Gender Gap Report 2025 groups economies into eight regions: Central Asia, Eastern Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and Northern Africa, Northern America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southern Asia. Economies in each regional group are listed in Appendix A. Around the world, progress toward gender parity traces different routes – and the collective efforts of the 148 economies included in the 2025 Global Gender Gap Index suggest there are three progress points for regions (Figure 1.7). Northern America, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean lead the regional scoreboard, each closing around three-quarters of their gender gaps, with scores of 75.8%, 75.1% and 74.5%, respectively. In the middle are Central Asia (69.8%), Eastern Asia and the Pacific (69.4%), and Sub-Saharan Africa (68.0%), steadily approaching the 70% threshold. At the lower end of the ranking are Southern Asia (64.6%) and the Middle East and Northern Africa (61.7%), having bridged about two-thirds of the gender gap. Only five of the eight regions score ahead of the 2025 global gender parity average of 68.8%. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Gender parity score (0-100%, 100%=parity)Eastern Asia and the Pacific69.8%Europe75.8% Latin America and the Caribbean 74.5%Northern America 75.1% Middle East and Northern Africa61.7%Southern Asia 64.6%Sub-Saharan Africa 68.0%Central Asia 69.4% Source World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Index 2025.NotePopulation-weighted averages, 148 economies. The percentages indicate the gender gap that has been closed to date.Gender gap closed to date, by region FIGURE 1.7